ISSUE
ROOT
OF THE
A THOUSAND DISSIMILAR MORNINGS
"My favorite memory in my five years with Davey comes
from attending the Davey Institute of Tree Sciences (D.I.T.S.)
in 2012. I became a much better tree climber and arborist.
Plus, staying in the same hotel and learning alongside 50
different people from all over North America was a great
month-long experience. It allowed me to network and get
to know all these different people much better. I still talk to
a handful of my fellow D.I.T.S. graduates."
THE MY DAVEY
BULLETIN IS FOR
EMPLOYEES LIKE...
VINCE NADJI
sales and service tech arborist,
North Pittsburgh R/C
Matt
Fredmonsky
July/August 2016 |
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Mornings for most are routine. Dress, brush your teeth,
grab a bite to eat, send the kids off to school and then head
to work – or some variation on the everyday ordinary.
My mornings are about as mundane. That changes on the
commute, about 2 miles from home, where I catch the
day's first sight of a Davey truck. Davey's Akron R/C office
is less than two miles from my front door, and the local
gas station is on the road to Kent. A Davey sighting is
guaranteed most mornings.
At local gas stations, the morning is well under way as
Davey employees fill up their fuel tanks – and their coffee
mugs – for a busy day caring for clients' landscapes. This
daily scene is repeated a thousand different ways across the
U.S. and Canada as Davey crews roll out from their offices.
Seeing the crews, whether a fleet of bucket trucks or a sin-
gle lawn care truck, always prompts positive thoughts about
the day ahead. Maybe the view yields thoughts of that day's
tasks and how to accomplish them. Or it could spark
a creative idea for solving a problem. More often than not,
the sight simply inspires a feeling of pride and a smile at
having the good fortune to work for a place called Davey.
Service stations used to be the starting point for every field
employee's day. Prior to the 1970s, Davey commonly parked
trucks overnight and during weekends at gasoline stations or
at the homes of foremen. Instead of a Davey shop, employ-
ees started their day either at the local gas station or their
foreman's house.
But by the 1970s that practice started to fade, as it became
clear the Davey Company had grown too large to park its
fleet so haphazardly. Since then, the company expanded
aggressively and built new shops and facilities across North
America to house the growing equipment fleet.
Today, employees enjoy the safety and security of a dedi-
cated space to gather at each morning. Does your team do
something different to shake up the mornings? Tell us about
it. Email bulletin@davey.com.
